Comments Requested on CGD Draft Report

What works to improve health, education and other social indicators in developing countries?

Despite decades of large investments by development agencies and developing countries themselves, the evidence base to answer this question is surprisingly slim.

With new financial commitments by donors and increased attention to achieving major gains in health, education and poverty reduction over the next 10 years, the opportunity and the imperative now exist to build knowledge about the impact of particular types of interventions on key outcomes.

The Center for Global Development is inviting comments on a new draft report, “When Will We Ever Learn? Recommendations to Improve Social Development through Enhanced Impact Evaluation”. The report seeks to analyze the causes for the under-supply of knowledge about “what works,” and propose a specific set of actions to address that problem by coordinating, improving and funding impact evaluations.

J-PAL Director, Professor Duflo was a participant in the Evaluation Gap Working Group for this report.

Download the report here: http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/evalgap

Please share this note with colleagues who may be interested. If you have any questions or comments about the initiative, please direct them to Jessica Gottlieb at jgottlieb@cgdev.org.